Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As wealth inequality remains stark, fueled in part by racial differences in homeownership rates, attention is increasingly turning ...

Heirs’ property lacks clear title, making it hard to build or finance homes. Over 500,000 heirs’ properties exist in 44 states, worth $32 billion. Partition sales and tax liens put multigenerational ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — In South Carolina there is a rich history of land being passed down from generation to generation. Grandparents or great-grandparents divided their acreage and handed down portions to ...

“The Heir's Property" is an in-depth look at the issue of land passed down through generations, told through the lens of one man’s struggle to retain land purchased a century ago by his ...

Estate planning for heirs' property could help families preserve and pass down hundreds of billions of dollars in assets, but "tangled titles" are putting that generational wealth at risk. Processing ...

As wealth inequality remains stark, fueled in part by racial differences in homeownership rates, attention is increasingly turning to a lesser-known area of property ownership - heirs' property. Heirs ...